Water Institute members from the Department of Biology, Professors Michael Power and Heidi Swanson received important financial support for their study that examines mercury contamination in Arctic char in Frobisher Bay. The funding was announced last week when Jonathan Wilkinson, Canada’s minister for fisheries and oceans and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Nunavut.
On the Apex beach outside Iqaluit, Wilkinson, wearing rubber boots, even took his turn at collecting a sample for a new project, which the Department of Fisheries and Oceans will help finance.
During his visit to the Nunavut capital, Wilkinson announced that the University of Waterloo project on mercury levels in Frobisher Bay in fish and invertebrates, like clams and starfish, will receive $108,000 from his department’s coastal environmental baseline program.
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Jonathan Wilkinson, Canada’s minister of fisheries and oceans, participates in some scientific data collection with a team of students and researchers from the University of Waterloo on the Apex beach outside Iqaluit last Friday, Aug. 2. (Photo courtesy of the DF0)